THE CHARLOTTE BOBCATS MESS

I feel extreme remorse as I write this, but the Charlotte Bobcats may be one of the most mismanaged ball clubs in the NBA. The reason I feel remorse is because my favorite basketball player of all time, Michael Jordan is running this team...unfortunately into the ground.

Now before I go bashing my icon I must argue that there have been a lot of other people that are probably to blame before Michael Jordan, but being the owner and being part of this team for many years, he has to get at least some of the blame.

Today the Bobcats made another blunder, dealing the only real talent they have on their roster, Gerald Wallace. This guy is a potential all-star every year and he does not cause any problems in the locker-room. In fact, he quietly goes about his great numbers while teams don't see the value in him (first Sacramento, now Charlotte).

Ok, from the owner perspective, the Bobcats wanted to shed some salaries...which is fine, but everyone but Wallace and D.J. Augustin should have been on the table. Even though I am sure they tried hard, there had to at least have been ONE team that wanted Stephen Jackson and his contract. He is a talented loud-mouth who is older than Wallace by around 4 years. He has gotta be the first to go.

But even before that, let's look at the bonehead deals that got the Bobcats into this situation in the first place. Emeka Okafor. Then his trade partner Tyson Chandler. Emeka Okafor just did not make any sense at all in my mind. Ok Larry Brown may not have liked him, but at the time he was the building block of your team. I was done being a Bobcats fan after that deal.

Then you trade Tyson Chandler for Matt Carroll and Eduardo Najera? Really? Those guys had smaller contracts but they went on for an eternity. Carroll still has 3 years while Najera has 2. It made absolutely no sense because Chandler's contract was coming off the books after this year.

So, if they would have kept Chandler and his almost $13 million expiring contract, then they would have been under the salary cap after this year. It didn't help that they overpaid for Tyrus Thomas. I have completely given up on this team...they have some cap room now going into the next year, but they have guys under contract like Desagana Diop, Matt Carroll, Eduardo Najera and Shaun Livingston...good luck building on that roster.